Re: [Harp-L] history

[Joe and Cass Leone <leone@xxxxxxxx>]

Frank, you are so right..as usual. The sad part is (harmonica  
content), that I would have expected, and was dismayed to find, that  
harmonicas made in the Czechy/Boii/Slovakish region 'should' be  
superior instruments, when they are not. The region was home to some  
of the finest machinists (and craftsmen..just look at Prague) on the  
planet. Perhaps being on the 'dark side' all those years has rendered  
this phenominon moot?  :)

smo-joe

On Nov 17, 2008, at 2:23 PM, Frank Evers wrote:

> Hi
>
> Am Montag, 17. November 2008 schrieb Dave Payne, Elk River Harmonicas:
> > although the nationalist
> > sentiment identified Bohemia would have been czech nationalism.
>
> You ignore that Bohemia was multi ethnic back then. Even if germans
> living in Bohemia (and they were a lot) would have been bohemian
> nationalists (which would have been less nationalism but separatism
> since there was no bohemian nation or bohemian people) they surely
> wouldn't have been czech nationalists - they were germans, not
> czechs. Bohemia was not a nation, it was a region.
>
> > But
> > I do wonder if the Richter legend is far newer, maybe post World
> > War II. _________________________________
>
> What do you mean with Richter legend? Any evidence for this thesis?
>
> --
> Gruß,Frank
>
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